Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 1849: Bess Hardemon arrives at the grimly Dickensian Priors Heath school, little knowing that she will one day end up as an inspiring and legendary headmistress — but at considerable personal cost. 1970: Sarah Beckett is delighted to gain a place at Priors Heath — as much for the pride of her parents as for herself — but will she fit in? The plight of a nineteenth century schoolteacher, trapped…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 196 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 824) Аннотация: Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox, and the unruly Scottish nobility; the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death;…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry is up to high jinks, causing chaos on his family holiday.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry receives a most unwelcome present...
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Gaul was divided into three parts. No, four parts — for one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders. BOOK 4 The Romans capture Cacofonix as a gift for Caesar who plans to throw him to the lions. To get into the Circus Maximus and rescue their bard, Asterix and Obelix have to become gladiators.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body — not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 404) Аннотация: They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, taking whatever cases the system throws in their path. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested, Mickey Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House — she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within 6…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the 'Dollmaker', the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city's most bizarre serial killers. But four years later, Norman Church's widow is taking Bosch to court, accusing him of killing the wrong man. To make matters worse, Bosch has just received a note, eerily reminiscent of the ones the Dollmaker…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: On October 17, eleven years ago, Julie Miller was found brutally strangled in the basement of her house in the township of Livingston, New Jersey. On that day, Will's brother, Ken Klein, became the subject of an international manhunt accused of the crime. He has not been seen since. Will has tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. He has a beautiful new girlfriend, Sheila, and a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 084 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 410) Аннотация: How far will you go to protect your child? Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer, they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days they are jolted by a message…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 404) Аннотация: After three years out of the LAPD, Harry Bosch returns, to find the department a different place from the one he left. A new Police Chief has been brought over from New York to give the place a thorough clean-up from top to bottom. Working with his former partner, Kiz Rider, Harry is assigned to the department's Open-Unsolved Unit, working on the thousands of cold cases that haunt the LAPD's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: LAPD detective Harry Bosch is down on his luck — his house is condemned in the aftermath of the earthquake, his girlfriend has left him, and he has been suspended for attacking his superior officer. To occupy time he examines the old case files covering a murder which took place on October 28th 1961. The victim was Marjorie Phillips Lowe — his mother... The case forces Bosch to confront the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Set at the time of the Russian Revolution, the end of a centuries old dynasty, the rise of the Bolsheviks sent shockwaves around the world. This is the story of one man who was there. It's real history — about the riches and excesses, the glory of the Russian nobility, Nicholas and Alexandra, their haemophiliac son, Alexei, notorious Rasputin, Lenin and Trotsky who ruled from palaces where the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Dexter Morgan is busy planning his wedding to Rita to complete his nice-guy disguise. But when a student is found burnt, molested and headless — seemingly sacrificed to an ancient god — and Dex is brought in as forensic analyst to help investigate, he realises he could be dealing with someone a whole lot more sinister than he is. Soon it seems the dark passenger in Dexter's head has gone into…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history, and exquisite sights and talking to its diverse peoples, Michael fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many others. NEW EUROPE is very much a voyage of discovery, from…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: RED MUTINY tells how the sailors of Imperial Russia's newest and most powerful battleship, POTEMKIN, seized control and flew the red flag of revolution in June 1905. It is a tale of dramatic adventure, naval battles, heroic sacrifices, treachery and intrigue at the court of the last Tsar. A dedicated band of revolutionaries inspire and lead the sailors to overthrow their tyrannical officers, but…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: The son of a brewer, Cromwell rose from obscurity to become Earl of Essex, Vice-Regent and High Chamberlain of England, Keep of the Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He manoeuvred his way to the top by intrigue, bribery and sheer force of personality in a court dominated by the malevolent King Henry. Cromwell pursued the interests of the king with single-minded energy and little…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Robert Rankin, the world's Master of Far Fetched Fiction, takes us on a roller coaster ride in his brand-new bestseller, which focuses on the biggest conspiracy theory in the world, ever. Here, in the Da-Da-Di-Da-Da Code, you will find the music of the angels — and the music of the devil. Aliens, flying saucers from hell, the Multiverse, the Illuminati: every wacky, way-out conspiracy theory…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A bolt of lightning struck Harper Connelly when she was 15, leaving her with a strange spider web of red on her torso and right leg, episodes of weakness, shakes and headaches — and an ability to find dead people. Harper is summoned to Memphis to demonstrate her unique talent, but there are still plenty of sceptics, even as Harper stands atop a grave and announces there are two bodies buried…